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August 6, 2008
A Niche of a Prayer in a Vulnerable Place
A voyeur, a thief and Barack Obama’s prayers at the Wailing Wall.
by Stephen Prothero
Read more here: www.killingthebuddha.com
August 6, 2008
Church of the Holy Firs
A wayward Unitarian finds her way along a path of broken sticks and banana slugs
by Meera Subramanian
Read here: www.killingthebuddha.com
July 26, 2008
KtB Relaunch Reading & Party
Join us for a literary evening to celebrate the adoption and relaunch of killingthebuddha.com, the online magazine of exceptionally unconventional religion writing. We invite you to a revival in Brooklyn featuring some of the latest KtB contributers, new and old, in a cozy pub, with a great selection of beers, books, couches and darts (board included.) So, mark your Gregorian [...]
July 8, 2008
KtB is alive. Again. It just won’t die.
Since Killing the Buddha was first created in 2000, the unholy love child of Jeff Sharlet, Peter Manseau and Jeremy Brothers, religion stories have made it — to glossy magazines covers, the babble of the blogosphere, and the bestseller list. But Killing the Buddha is still the only place for brazen stories of belief — [...]
December 7, 2007
Reader Mail
yo ktb,
count me stupid (my wife will confirm) but i can’t
figure out what you did to your website?
it’s gotta be the biggest fucked up confusion i’ve
seen since the old rooster caught his pecker in the
chicken wire fencing!
blah, blah, blah
cock-a-doodle-doo!
jack of the universe
October 16, 2007
Beyond Nepotism
We rarely publish poetry here at KtB, but this week one of our own (which is to say me, Laurel Snyder, the person typing this) has released a book of poems. A book of poems called, “The Myth of the Simple Machines”.
And because a few of these poems are kinda relig-ish, and because such poetry [...]
September 18, 2007
Divinity & Disgust
The question of where morality comes from remains a bee in the bonnet of both religionists and philosophers. Or perhaps it only seems so because we’ve lately been reading a few books on the subject. What emerges from this reading is nagging feeling that talking about the origins of morality is a way of [...]
September 12, 2007
Two Types of Other
We’ve just received an email asking us to clarify our religious affiliation by choosing one of the options on this long and peculiar menu:
NO – None
BP – Baptist
BU – Buddhist
CA – Catholic
CG – Congregational
DC – Disciples of Christ
EP – Episcopal
HI – Hindu
IS – Islam
JE – Jewish
LD – Latter-Day Saints
LU – Lutheran
LW – Other
ME – Methodist
MN [...]
